DD an animagus?

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 90504

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "suehpfan" <stanleys at s...> wrote:
> > If Dumbledore is, indeed, an animagus, he must certainly have 
> become so well before middle-age. 
> > Sylvia (who feels we have way too many animagi floating around 
> > already)
> 
> I have been thinking about DD as an animagus a great deal, both as I 
> read the books and through this thread.  It has occured to me that 
> perhaps DD is something we have not had described to us before.  We 
> all know that DD is a VERY powerful wizard, why then would such a 
> powerful wizard be limited to becoming but 1 other thing?  perhaps 
> Dumbldore is capable of becoming anything he wants, whenever he 
> wants.  He would not have to register as he is not specifically an 
> animagus (although I believe if Hermione found him on the list and 
> was asked to keep it quiet she would) and he would be able to be 
> anywhere without people knowing he was there.
> 
> Oh say...a spider in a cupboard under the stairs perhaps?
> 
> Wondering about Dumbledore and who the other metamorphmagus is going 
> to be...
> Sue

I think you're onto something here. If DD is a metamorphmagus, he
could turn into a wasp or anything he wanted to because he would have
been born that way. (Maybe he could even turn himself into a potted
plant, as Hannah Abbott suggested tha Sirius Black could do in PoA).
Whether that would also enable him to become completely invisible
without an Invisibility Cloak, I don't know, but he's indicated that
he has that ability.

We've seen only one metamorphmagus (or should that be metamorphmaga,
since she's female?) so far, and way too many animagi for the idea of
DD as animagus to appeal to me. Certainly JKR needs to show that he's
different from, and more powerful than, any other "fully qualified"
wizard (though maybe not as Gandalf-like as he appeared at the end of
OoP), and being a metamorphagus would partially fit the bill--as long
as he made more interesting use of the ability than Tonks has so far.
Personally, I think she must have been used primarily to get us used
to the concept of metamorphmagism (I'm guessing at the noun form
here), which will undoubtedly play a larger role later in the series,
just as the polyjuice potion in CoS prepared us for the transformation
of Barty Crouch, Jr., two books later.

Carol